Word: columbus
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Pithy Style. Curtis, 44, has come a long way covering caviar and its consumers. She started her newspaper career as a women's reporter for the Columbus Citizen (now Citizen-Journal), and joined the Times in 1961, becoming women's news editor in 1965. She is known for her pithy writing style, and often tartly exposes the foibles of the jet set. Her scrapbook includes a satiric report on a meeting of high-powered feminists that was thrown into an uproar when one of the participants decided to go topless, and a story on Willie Morris' fall...
...Landing Zone Buzzard, when Company M arrived from Columbus, Ohio, the most energetic activity was the application of Coppertone. "It's hard to get decent Marines," complained Corporal Gary Gambill, 26, an exporter for Ashland Chemical. "Thirteen quit the company last month, and only five joined-and three of those have started paper work to get their discharges...
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...father, a trainmaster in Columbus, was an accomplished amateur golfer, as was Weiskopf's mother. Though they early schooled young Tom in the finer points of golf, his interests were focused elsewhere. "In high school," he says, "I competed in football, basketball, baseball, wrestling and track and wasn't any good at any of them." Giving in to the inevitable, he took up golf in earnest and "went from being a straight A student to a straight C." As a freshman at Ohio State he caddied for Upperclassman Jack Nicklaus, then the young master of amateur golf. Impressed...
...immigrant Italian barber, Sirica entered Georgetown Law School straight from high school and financed his schooling by working as an athletics instructor for the Knights of Columbus and as an occasional exhibition boxer. As a semipro pugilist, he became a friend of Jack Dempsey's and accompanied the Manassa Mauler on bond drives across the U.S. during World...